St. Verbatim in Exile

“All Art is Carpal Tunnel: Neo-Brut Works by Charles Alexander” runs through August 17th at the Scarab Club’s Second-Floor Gallery. This showing features 26 new art pieces by whimsical, tongue-in-chic area “old phartist” (he’s 72) Alexander. This is his third SC solo s how. He currently curates the Affirmations Center Art Gallery.

In June, he was a DIA Saturday Demonstrating Artist and had a “diner acclaimed” showing of his work at the Majestic Cafe. “My work goes well with caviar as well as ham and cheese,” say’s Alexander. “I can afford the latter, if properly grilled.” In the 90s he had his work featured on four Metro Times covers. “I gained a lot on notoriety f rom those covers – that and the adults only ads I ran at the time. I still get favorable comments”, he said.

A Critic Double Speaks

Preface To Alexander’s Scarab Club Exhibit:

“Is there no lovely, lovely light at the end of the carpal tunnel?” Simple Simon asked the Taker of Timely Tickets, who smiled kindly at him, conductor’s 3-in-1 oil can in hand – for aesthetic, financial, and locomotive lubrication of passing freight, of which art is only one example of many worth talking about in New York City.

Free will given. Free hand taken. Free pour forgotten. Enter at risk!
(So reads the flashing neon sign.) P.T. Barnum’s EGRESS AHEAD!

“Are there no shades of bright banker’s Euro green, no hints of
radiant bread-and-butter purple, no dot-dot-dashes of prosperity blue
to guide the artist to how it’s really done these Intelligent Design,
home-school, broadband Fundygelical days?” Simple Simon mused, paying
tokens A, B. C and D, subset URL (for distance traveled), and
pocketing X, Y, and Z (for restricted Zipcode) for himself.

[COMMUTER’S NOTE: Zipcode: Ground Zero. URL: Nice job of framing! Who
cuts your mats? Isn’t this hung downside up? You charge by inch,
hour, or critic’s choice? Your agent’s who? Forty. Fifty. Sixty
percent of what, times when, against why not? Sell much these days?
I thought not.]

“For tokens X and Y I’ll g rant 50 miles into uncharted spino-cerebral
space,” announced the Take of Timely Tickets. “Your chakra parameters
seem dimly lighted, but nonetheless audible to outsider sonic echo
and insider boombox boom. Kick up your heels for ego surfing! If you
feel the need to repeat. (Repeat the joyful sound!) Please do. Yes!
Yes! Yes! Change lobotomies and dance!

Fibrillation at High Noon

“The High Holy Synapse Days – make use of them as best you can. In
the Twilight Zone of your Dark Night of the Soul, Simple Simon, keep
them marked on your desk calendar of life. Stamp your art pieces for
Mercury retrograde in Mars. Pluto in Uranus. Mark them Venus 24/7.
Burn your roman candle at both ends. Carpal tunnel or no, the joke’s
on you. It’s an artist’s life. Red, white, mostly blue.

“And why bother poor janitor Henry Darger for far-out directions?”
the Taker of Timely Tickets added. “Or why even charm his seven
Vivian sisters, with their curious little-guy appendages, for a much-
needed Glandeco-Angelinnian ride on the Reading past do-not-collect
$200 Monopoly GO!? They’ve swept the tracks clean of two-point perspective, paint-on-
velvet Elvis Presley iconographic images. Proceed with or without 501
C3 aspirations. Boldly break a leg, my boy! Bon chance!”

“Shall I pack a lo-cal lunch?” asked Simple Simon, sheepishly, while
breaking an easterly wind, but bravely daring to skip the I’m-over-
the-hill and down-the-hillaria-tube to neo-fractured fame is
fleeting . . . And so . . . thus ever so . . . it was . . . Why
travel on an empty stomach? Why indeed? Give me back my ear . . . My starry night . . . to blink . . . and
out! Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.”

[MORAL: Pow! Bang! Shazam! Go for broke on Easy Pick! Rub hard. J
pegs, no way. Play 1492. 1776. 2012. 15 chips on papal litany orange.
Sweet XVI. Genuflect! Go bop! and benedictus, too. Deco. Deco. Art
Nouveau. A bit of outsider brut will do for you. Amen. Spell check
for truth with a carpal T. Hip hop. Seven come 9/11. Hope springs
eternal. Over and out! Bless us St. Andy of Warhol for we have
sinned. Spray paint your Alpha-Artist turf! Glitter and be . . ."]
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Translated f rom Dada French by Sr. Nada Tulate, Sisters of the Order
of Nihil Obstat, Academy of the Arts, Convent, Brooklyn by the Bridge
60606. Rosaries for the aesthetically blind on alternate Wednesday of
the month. Automated sheep shearing on Pentecost Sundays.

No Progress in Piety

ENTRIES
The exhibition is open and is free to all visual artists. Entries must
be original works of art completed within the last three (3) years.
All visual art forms and media are acceptable, except performance.
Complicated installations must be installed by the artist. All entries
must be in jpeg format only (2 MB maximum size) and e-mailed to:
arthousevote4me@sbcglobal.net
Artists may submit two digital images. Sculpture may include a second view. On your jpegs, list full name, title, size and medium.
(ex. JohnSmith_title_18x10_oil). The entries will be juried by the Northville Art House Commissioners.
Deadline for entries is September 7, 2008.
SPECIFICATIONS
Accepted works must be ready for hanging. Paintings must be suitably framed; strip framing is acceptable. Works on paper must be matted and framed. All entries to be hung must be equipped with screw eyes and wire, ready for hanging. No substitution, exchange, modification, or withdrawal of works is permitted after they are accepted and for the
duration of the exhibition. The Northville Art House reserves the right to reject works not represented accurately in the image (jpeg) submitted.
Each accepted work must arrive with proper labeling (name, title, media, price) securely attached to the back of frame or bottom
of sculpture.
NOTIFICATION
Jury notification will be e-mailed by September 11, 2008. If a work is accepted, the Northville Art House may reproduce the work for show promotion.
DELIVERY OF WORK
Artists Respond to the Presidential Election of 2008
Artists from Honoré Daumier to Pablo Picasso have commented through their art on the quest and use of power by politicians. The Northville Art House wants your take on the upcoming
election. This show is designed to showcase a variety of perspectives in this all-media show.
October 3 - November 2, 2008
Call For Entries!
September 25-27. Do not use glass for shipped artwork.
All shipping costs to and from the Northville Art House and liability
for damage are the responsibility of the artist. Art not picked up within 14 days after the exhibition closes becomes the property of the
Northville Art House.
The Northville Art House
215 W. Cady Street
Northville, MI 48167
Regular Hours: Thursday-Saturday 1-5 p.m.
INSURANCE
The Northville Art House will exercise professional care in handling all entries, but cannot assume liability for loss or damage, however caused, while works are in our possession or in transit. It is recommended that each artist provide his or her own insurance.
SALES
The Northville Art House will offer its services in promoting sales and will retain a 33% commission on all sales. Please let us know if your work is Not For Sale.
CALENDAR FOR VOTE FOR ME
1. Deadline for e-mail entries: September 7, 2008
2. Notification e-mailed by: September 11, 2008
3. Delivery or shipment of accepted works of art to the Northville Art House: September 25-27, Thursday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m.
4. Exhibition: October 3 - November 2, 2008
5. First Friday Opening: October 3, 6-9 p.m.
6. Pick-up, Return Work: Friday, November 3, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
The Northville Art House is located in downtown Northville at 215 W. Cady St. (1 block South of Main St. and 2 blocks West of Center St.)
www.northvillearts.org
Work may be delivered or be shipped to the Northville Art House in STURDY, REUSABLE PACKING. A PREPAID SHIPPING
LABEL MUST BE INCLUDED for your work to be in the show. NO Styrofoam peanuts! Shipped works must arrive
QUESTIONS?
e-mail Jeff Cancelosi at the address:
arthousevote4me@sbcglobal.net

The Anniversary Season: Center Galleries + Woodward Lecture Series
ANDRES SERRANO PICKS DETROIT
A Juried Exhibition of Detroit Artists
CALL FOR ENTRIES
JUROR: ANDRES SERRANO
Born in New York City, Andres Serrano first studied
painting at the Brooklyn Museum School before turning to
photography in the late 1970s. Since that time, his work
has been featured more than one hundred solo exhibitions
around the world, including a critically acclaimed
retrospective that toured the US and Europe. He is
perhaps most well-known for Piss Christ, a photograph that
in 1989 precipitated a national debate about free
expression and federal funding of the arts. Serrano’s
interest in portraiture as a means to investigate various
tensions in American society has been an important theme
and has led him to photograph subjects as diverse as
Catholic clerics, members of the Ku Klux Klan, homeless
men and women, corpses in the morgue, human sexuality,
and, in his most recent book, “America and Other Work,” a
series of portraits reflecting the numerous characteristics of
diversity in the US, published in 2004.
AWARDS:
1st Place = $500 2nd Place = $300 3rd Place = $200
ELIGIBILITY & CONDITIONS:
Artists 21-years or older living in Wayne, Oakland or
Macomb Counties are eligible to enter. Artists may submit
up to two works in all media for consideration. A nonrefundable
$20 entry fee is required. Entries are to be
recent works (completed within the last two years) that
have not been previously exhibited at CCS, and preferably
not exhibited previously in the Detroit area. Works in all
media are acceptable, including painting, photography,
sculpture, video, digital, etc. Works may not exceed for
2D: up to 50lbs. or more than 6-feet in any direction, for
3D: no more than 8-feet in any direction. Work must be
professionally mounted and framed and installation-ready.
Artist is responsible for any special hardware or installation
mechanisms, and must supply installation instructions or
assistance in installing, if necessary. Artist is responsible
for supplying video/DVD equipment for presentation of
film/video works. Artist is responsible for delivery or
shipping of artwork to and from exhibition. Work for
exhibition that differs from work accepted from entry CD
will be disqualified. Center Galleries reserves the right to
reject entries that do not meet these requirements.
ENTRY POSTMARK DEADLINE:
Friday, July 18, 2008 All entries must be postmarked or
hand-delivered to Center Galleries by Friday, July 25.
ENTRY PROCEDURE:
Artists must submit the following materials for
consideration. Entries will not be returned. A CD of up to
two (2) images in JPEG format, 300 dpi maximum
resolution, no larger than 1.0 MB. Additional images may
be included if they are details of 3D work. Images must be
labeled (as indicated on Application Form) with artist’s last
name-#1, last name-#2, etc. (e.g. “Smith-#1”, “Smith-#2”).
CDs must be clearly labeled with Artist’s name. A
completed Entry Form with works numbered to correspond
to CD. An artist’s resume or CV. A non-refundable entry
fee of $20 made payable to: CCS-CENTER GALLERIES.
Artists whose work is chosen by the juror for exhibition will
be notified by email. Please do not call Center Galleries
for jury results. Artists whose work is chosen for the
exhibition will receive a consignment form and artwork
identification labels by email prior to delivery of artwork.
SALES/INSURANCE:
Work may be for sale or NFS. Works cannot be listed
POR. NFS works must still include insurance value.
Center Galleries retains 1/3rd of the sale price (artist
receives 2/3rd) and will insure all work while on its
premises.
IMPORTANT DATES:
- Entry Deadline: Friday, July 25
- Notification of jury results (by email): Week of
August 18 – 22
- Delivery of work: Week of September 15 – 20,
between 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
- Exhibition dates: September 27 – October 25
- Closing Reception & Awards Presentation with
Andres Serrano: Friday, October 24, 6-8 p.m.
- Artwork Pick-up: October 27, 28 & 29, between 10
a.m. – 5 p.m. (Unless special arrangements are
made in advance, works left at Center Galleries
after October 31 will become the property of
College for Creative Studies.)
CCS’ Center Galleries is a dynamic forum for the contemporary visual,
literary and performance arts, and an integral component of the College
for Creative Studies. As the College for Creative Studies’ main exhibition
venue, Center Galleries presents the work of student, faculty, alumni,
local, national, and internationally prominent artists in four gallery spaces
for the education and enjoyment of the CCS family and the community at
large.

The Anniversary Season: Center Galleries + Woodward Lecture Series
ANDRES SERRANO PICKS DETROIT
A Juried Exhibition of Detroit Artists
ENTRY FORM
Please print clearly. List your name as you would like it to appear for publication. Center Galleries respects your privacy and will not
share this information.
Name:
Address:
City/State/Zip:
Daytime Phone number:
Email Address (required):
Images on CD must be submitted in JPEG format, 300 dpi maximum resolution, no larger than 1.0 MB.
Work #1: (Label image with Last Name-#1)
Title: Date:
Dimensions: Medium:
Work #2: (Label image with Last Name-#2)
Title: Date:
Dimensions: Medium:
You may include detail images of 3D works. These must be labeled Last Name-#1A or Last Name-#2A.
Detail Image Title of Work:
Please include a non-refundable $20 Entry Fee by check or money order made payable to: CCS-Center Galleries.
Application Checklist:
_______ CD
_______ Entry Form
_______ $20 Entry Fee
_______ Artist resume or CV Accepted entries must be postmarked by Friday, July 25, 2008.
I certify that the information submitted on the Entry Form will not change if my work is accepted, and that by entering my
work in this exhibition, I will abide by the regulations as set forth on the Call for Entries.
Artist’s signature
Mail your Entry to:
“Andres Serrano Picks Detroit”
CCS- Center Galleries
301 Frederick Douglass
Detroit, MI 48202
Questions? Call Michelle Perron at 313.664.7806